The holidays are upon us, and if you are like me; you might not be the jolliest Santa on the block. While living in a perpetual summer state is nice, it is difficult to find your Christmas cheer when your town's tree is made from sand... So here is a list of the top ten ways to find your holiday cheer, regardless of where you live!

Expelled from a closing airport and sent to spend Christmas Eve at the "bad Denny's" to be hit on by an aging gangster named "Foot" while sitting adjacent to "Chardonnay," a stripper with a stack of singles and feather roach-clip earrings, wearing a black Santa hat emblazoned with the word "Naughty!"

I am a 27yo Belgian woman living in NYC. A career move I made out of (failed) love in the first place. And a move that got me in an emotionally abusive relationship I still can’t get out of. I wrote down my experience of a year living away from family with an abusive boyfriend. Warning signs of mental abuse can be so subtle that sometimes women don’t see it, so my hope is that hearing from my perspective helps other women.

When broken car, a motorcycle or a toaster, enough to turn to the skilled person that for a certain amount of will fix everything. But it is not so easy to repair. Satellites, for example. They're high in orbit fly, and there is much more difficult to catch them, to repair or modify the design. Therefore, you can continue to clutter the space by replacing old or defective machines with new ones and can fix what is broken, if the figure out how to do it, of course. In NASA intend to solve the problem with the repair of spacecraft using repairman Restore-L, designed for diagnostics, repair and re-deployment of the satellite repaired in orbit.

Many run in the Race, not all can claim the Exec title. But even if you don't get to be an Exec representing 30k students, running in the Race gives you loads of skills that mean you ultimately win anyway! Here's a little look at what some of those who lost are up to now...